As I did yesterday, I preface today's ZGram on "Hitler versus Communism" with a book review excerpt, first published in "Insight" and reprinted in the Schwartz Report, April 2000. This book review is titled "Communism's Bloody History" by Stephen Goode and is an evaluation of a sensational title called "The Black Book of Communism."
Here, too, Revisionists - former Communists at that! - revise their whole world outlook because they found they were deceived. These largely Gentile intellectuals realize now - pretty late, alas, but better late than never! - that they followed a false ideal most of their lives, created for them by those Marxist Internationalists who used them as Useful Idiots in the fulfillment of a global manipulation agenda.
These days, you see this awakening all over the world. It is a timid awakening - young, raw, and often confused. Let's hope it is not the kind of short-lived awakening we saw in the movie "Awakening" where senile patients briefly recovered their sanity after being given an experimental drug. It is a sign of our times and our politically senile societies that our "experimental drug" has to be historical truth - now outlawed as a defense in so-called "democratic" countries!
The Black Book's indictment of Communism is all the more powerful for many readers because its six authors once were Communists or fellow travelers. They now regard themselves as liberals or fellow researchers, professors and journalists associated with the Paris-based Center for the Study of History and Sociology of Communism. Courtois is editor of the review Communisme.
It's their conclusion that, all told, Communism during the first 70 years of its existence was responsible for 85 million to 100 million deaths worldwide, while Nazism can account for 25 million. Here's how the totals break down:
* USSR: 20 million deaths
* China: 65 million deaths
* Vietnam: 1 million deaths
* North Korea: 2 Million deaths
* Cambodia: 2 Million deaths
* Eastern Europe: 1 million deaths
* Latin America: 150,000 deaths
* Africa: 1.5 million deaths
* The International Communist Movement and communist parties not in
power: about 10,000 deaths.
The figures are presented soberly and the way the authors arrived at them is explained clearly. But despite the rich scholarship of the book, Malia warned in his introduction that many academics and others will find these numbers very difficult to swallow, denounce The Black Book and its findings as "right-wing anti-Communist rhetoric" and do their best to relegate the book to the realm of misguided and wrong intentional that no one need seriously consider.
What is telling about this is that it is the Communists themselves, as the above excerpt reveals, who are now furiously backpedaling. What they are seeing now, known as the Marxist "New World Order", was clearly seen by Hitler as he stood up to the monstrous regime that was already terrorizing Germany through uprisings, hostage taking, arsons, shootings of policemen, and the murder of hundreds of National Socialist Party activists. (41,000 of them were wounded and many crippled for life until the menace was overcome at the Hitler ballot box.)
And unlike many Monday Morning Quarterbackers now trying to contain the monster they released - and from the safety of ivy league tenure in stodgy universities, at that! - the Führer faced that monster squarely even in the early years of his dictatorship and called a spade a spade:
* In his speech at the Harvest Thanksgiving held on the Bückeberg on 4 October 1936, Hitler said:
"All of us, as we look around, see before us a threatening and menacing world; we see there unrest and insecurity, hatred and countless outbursts of human passions, yes, and of human madness, too. And in the midst of this world of disturbance and unrest our Germany lies embedded. (...)
"(T)o all of us it is clear that if Europe today were to sink into the madness of Bolshevism then no one could help us, we should be left to our own resources."
* Speaking at Berlin on 6 October 1936, at the opening of the Winter-Help Appeal, Hitler said:
"Not by bayonets did we compel the people, but by the force of limitless idealism we won the German people and led them under our banners. To-day, Moscow can send into Germany her ridiculous phrases. . . They will befoul our people no more!"
* In his Proclamation read at the Nuremberg Parteitag on 7 September 1937 Hitler said:
"(T)oday who will refuse to see or even deny that we find ourselves in the midst of a struggle which is not concerned merely with problems of frontiers between peoples or States but rather with the question of the maintenance or the annihilation of the whole inherited human order of society and its civilizations? The organization of human society is threatened. It is not any Tower (ed. ref to Tower of Babel) built up by a State which is threatened with collapse, but there has come over the peoples a new confusion of tongues, a new division of the human race. (...)
"(I)n the life of peoples wars and disasters have not so fearful a significance as have the internal crises in the order of society. Lost wars can in a short time be made good; but if the internal order of a national community is destroyed, it is often only after centuries that it can be restored. In not a few cases peoples have finally perished after such a disaster. (...)
"The revolution of society which has been the work of Bolshevism means nothing else than the destruction of those intelligences which are native to a people. . . "
* In his speech to political leaders delivered on 10 September 1937 at the Nuremberg Parteitag Hitler said:
"Germany will not be overrun either from within or from without! And this fact is, I believe, a very great contribution towards peace, for it will serve as a warning to all those who, starting from Moscow, are seeking to set the world ablaze."
* In his closing speech delivered at the Nuremberg Parteitag of 1937, Hitler said:
"This is no longer a fight for paltry dynastic interests, a fight to round off the frontiers of States, a struggle for small economic aims: no! this is the battle against the veritable world sickness which threatens to infect the peoples, a plague which devastates whole peoples, whose special characteristic is that it is an international pestilence.
"For that we know the reason: here there is no question of a Russian or a Spanish malady, just as little as in 1918 it was a question of a German malady or in 1919 of a Hungarian or Bavarian malady. Neither Russians nor Germans, neither Hungarians nor Spaniards were or are the source of this malady, the source is to be found in that international parasite upon the life of peoples that has spread itself over the world for centuries in order in our day to attain once more to the full effectiveness of its destructive existence. (...)
"As National Socialists we have no doubt what are the causes of the battle which to-day is driving the whole world into unrest, we know the conditions under which it is fought. But above all we recognize the extent, the range of this struggle. It is a gigantic event, it is a chapter of world history - it is the greatest danger for the culture and civilization of humanity with which humanity has ever been threatened since the collapse of the States of the ancient world. (...)
"This attack is leveled against the very substance of peoples as peoples, against their internal organization: it is leveled, too, against the leaders of these peoples, against those who represent each people's own race, against their intellectual life, against their traditions, against their economic life, in a word against all those other institutions which determine the picture of the individuality, the character, and the life of these peoples and States. This attack is so embracing that it draws into the field of its action almost all the functions of life, while no one else can tell how long this fight may last.
"Certain it is that since the rise of Christianity, since the victorious march of Mohammedanism, since the Reformation there has been no such event in world history. (...)
"The peril cannot be banished by a simple denial of its existence. I can readily believe that the statesmen of the democratic world find no pleasure in concerning themselves with the problems raised by Communism. But that question is not under discussion. They need not wish to concern themselves with Communism, but concern themselves with Communism they must one of these days, or their democracy in one way or another will fall in ruins. This world pestilence will ask no man's permission to put an end to the democracies through the Marxist dictatorship: it will do so without any man's leave, unless it meets with opposition. And this opposition must be something else than a merely Platonic rejection of the doctrine, or any more or less solemn proclamation of hostility: there must be an immunization of the peoples against this poison, while the international carrier of this bacillus must itself be fought. (...)
"Since this Europe forms a community of peoples and States which has been gradually built up through the centuries amongst close neighbors and has been supplemented and enriched through this give-and-take of neighborhood, therefore if within this community one State is infected, that infection is not only a strain upon the particular State while for the other States it is perhaps merely interesting: on the contrary it is decisive for all alike. Just as in a school healthy children cannot be left together with those suffering from an infectious disease, so in Europe no useful and happy common life of the nations is in the long run possible when amongst their numbers there are some who are suffering from a poisonous infection and who openly profess their desire to infect others with the same disease. (...)
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Tomorrow: Part III of Hitler versus Communism
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Thought for the Day:
"IN THE EARLY 1930s, Walter Duranty of the New York Times was in Moscow, covering Joe Stalin the way Joe Stalin wanted to be covered. To maintain favor and access, he expressly denied that there was famine in the Ukraine even while millions of Ukrainian Christians were being starved into submission. For his work Duranty won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. To this day, the Times remains the most magisterial and respectable of American newspapers."
(Joe Sobran)